Helping ensure our woodlands survive, and thrive.
Woodland management services
Coppicing
Coppicing involves the periodic cutting back of trees and shrubs down to ground level, allowing new sprouts and stems to grow. This process rejuvenates trees, helping them to live for many years while also generating usable timber. Coppicing encourages the growth of woodland flowers and supports native wildlife by allowing light to reach the woodland floor.
Managing open areas
Open spaces and pathways in woodland areas often need maintenance to clear and preserve rides, glades and scallops. By doing this, sunlight, exposure and shelter combine to form woodland edge habitats encouraging high levels of species diversity.
Habitat creation
Waste branches and timber from coppicing and clearing offer amazing habitats for all manner of wildlife, from bats and birds to ground mammals, fungi and insects. By creating piles and dead hedges with waste timber and branches, you save money in waste removal while creating rich habitats.
Bracken & Bramble Rolling
Bracken and bramble rolling involves using a specialised roller or our shire horse. This is a sustainable method of control to suppress bracken and bramble growth and encourage the establishment of other vegetation.
Unlike flails, the roller breaks the stems and reduces the plants ability to photosynthesise. It can also be used effectively in newly planted woodlands without any damage to young trees.
Invasive species control
Invasive species control in a woodland involves managing and reducing the presence of non-native plant species that threaten the health and biodiversity of the forest ecosystem. The plants are identified, an assessment is made on the extent of spread, control methods will then be employed to prevent further spread.
By implementing comprehensive invasive species control measures woodlands can be protected and restored promoting the health and resilience of forest ecosystems for the future.
Flailing & Dense Undergrowth Control
Thick vegetation inhibits tree regeneration and limits wildlife habitats. Flailing and dense undergrowth control in woodlands are techniques used to manage and reduce the density of vegetation, shrubs and small trees in forested areas.
We use either a flail mower attachment on our compact tractor or a hand-held brush cutter to cut and pulverise vegetation into small pieces. This reduces the height and density of undergrowth, allowing more light to reach the woodland floor. The cut vegetation then mulches, feeding the soil with nitrates.
